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A Calendar of Gardening Blog Memes

When I began preparing to host a garden blogging meme, I only knew of a couple of memes and didn’t realize how many active garden blogging memes there are. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Memes are fun! Memes promote a sense of community and nurture the artistic and scientific aspects of gardening and related interests. Garden memes are educational. I guess I must have said something about how many gardening memes exist in the blogosphere to The Husband and Tech Support guy and, well, he developed a widget, (ahem, with my help), that I can now add to my blog as a link to a list of currently active garden blogging memes. The debut of the Calendar of Garden Blogging memes is today! On my homepage, if you scroll down a bit and look to the right, you’ll see a the lovely native Texan Goldeneye which, when you click on it, will bring you to this page. There may be other active blogging memes that I missed and that are not on this list: no slight is intended–I’ve included the memes I know about and that are currently active. If you know of other active garden blogging memes, please don’t hesitate to contact me with the pertinent information, either through the handy-dandy little blue envelope (the one that says, contact me), or through the comments section. Happy meme-ing!

Below is a list of current garden blog memes and their dates, the hosts, and their websites :

Done and done. Thank you very much! I sort of doubt I’ll throw in with many more memes than the two I already follow, but who knows? I could wake up one morning after a visit from the Organization Fairy and potentially manage a whole new approach to blogging. In the meantime it is always fun to see what’s coming up next, meme-wise. You and your hub are great to share.

That’s the thing about memes–they’re fun and (for me, anyway) lend a certain structure to monthly planning. I will say that participating in the 3 memes that I do, forces me to pay closer attention to those subjects in my garden. So, enjoy at whatever level you choose!

Hi Cathy! You are most welcome and I hope it’s helpful. I really enjoy participating with various memes–I wish I had the time to add more, but that’s the beauty of blogging, isn’t it? One can participate at one’s comfort level.

Thanks very much for including Looking Good my new Friday Blogging Event in your list Tina. I’m delighted to say that WordPress are promoting it too. I think we could have some fun with this and include all sorts of garden/allotment related posts. Thanks again Gillian x

Well, no, I don’t think so. I would assume (though I haven’t checked) that anyone who has a meme, more than likely has taken the widget and advertises through the widget and calendar. But there are probably bloggers who have the widget simply because, like me, they’d like to advertise garden blogging memes. Yours is a good question, though!

Hi Tina, i’ve always joined in gardening memes, but as most said i always forget the dates or forget the meme, so this is very useful. However, i have not been doing the html way of putting it in the side bar, so i don’t know how to put it in. By the way, in the past i’ve always depended on meme-aholics which has listed also some memes for the whole week. There is Floral Friday Fotos and others, that i always link in. Thank you much.

Hi Tina – I thought I’d refresh my blog look with your great calendar for the new year. But I don’t seem to be able to find the html link to copy and paste. Any tips – no rush, just if you have a moment to explain what I should do?